Improvement in watch-winding clicks



E. PAULUS.

Watch Winding Click.

Patented Nov. 3, 1868.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE PAULUS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATCH-WINDING CLICKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 83,788., dated November3, 1868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE PAULUS, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement inatches, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description,refer ence being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which-- Figure 1 represents the frame of awatchmoveinent termed three-fourths plate. Fig. 2 represents the topplate removed from its place and reversed. Figs. 3 and 4 represent theclick and ratchetwhccl out of their re cesses.

The objectof this invention is to construct a new style of watch-windingclick-work, of which the peculiar arrangement and shape make it strongerthan usual, and not liable to break or get out of order, being held inproper recesses made in the thickness or upper part of atop plate welladapted to leave inview the greater part of the work, as seen in Fig. 1.

E denotes the click, made of a round piece of steel, and out, as theanchor of the leverescapemcnt, so as to catch properly the teeth of theratchet-wheel, and adjusted in a solid manner in a recess made in thethickness or upper part, F, managed in the working out of the plate soas to move on its center, and resist, by its full size, the action ofthe mainsprin g. It is held, together with the ratchet-wheel, by thedelicately-shaped and hardencdsteel bridge L.

The top plate, 0, is held on the pillars or front plate by the threescrews a b c, and d is a screw to fasten the movement in the case.

In G is seen the double-cap-jeweled bridge for the staff of the palletand escapement wheel, and made of gold or hardened steel. In H is therevolving barrel for the mainsprin g, as usual.

Fig. 2 is an inside view of the reversed plate to show the click-springM inserted in the thickness of the plate by means of abevel or snapedge, and acting, in N, on the pinscrew of the click passing through theplate.

Fig. 3 is the click taken out of its recess to show better its shape andthickness and the pin-screw l, which acts on the click-spring M, Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is the ratchet or click wheel, with its square center hole, to beheld on the winding arbor, as usual.

What I claim is- 1. The improved watch-windin g click, made in a roundshape, cut so as to catch the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, and adjustedin a recess of the top plate, to resist, by its full size, the power ofthe mainspring, in the manner substantially as described.

2. The combination of the winding-click E, bridge L, spring M, andpin-screw P, arranged and operating substantially as described.

Philadelphia, May 4, 1868.

E. PAULUS.

Vitnesses:

SAMUEL O. OGLE, JOHN BEZARE.

